
Bonus episode: Katherine May on burnout and why we all need a little more wonder in our lives
How We Live Now with Katherine May
The Importance of Midlife in Menopause
I started going through perimenopause when I was 29 and the anger still landed in my mid-40s. It's almost like we found this new easy thing to blame our difficulties on which means that we don't have to take a much much deeper look into how we're running things, she says. Every middle age woman I know is carrying such a kind of complex burden of care work because they are holding down hugely valued working roles as well as dealing with a responsibility to stay pretty somehow and thin.
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